New Delhi, March 24 -- In Ancient Rome, parties who wanted to record the terms of an agreement had to present themselves before a tabellio-a particular type of clerk whose job was to write down the te... Read More
New Delhi, March 17 -- Toyota's factory in Woodstock, Ontario, will soon deploy Digit, a humanoid robot from Agility Robotics, on its production floor. These bipedal machines will unload auto parts fr... Read More
New Delhi, March 10 -- Last week, I wrote about how frontier artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to improve exponentially-to the point where it is not just introducing linear improvements in functi... Read More
New Delhi, March 3 -- About a month ago, I built my first app. It was a simple speed-reader Chrome extension that is designed to display text one word at a time so I can read an article faster than no... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- In November 2023, a few governments and technologists gathered at Bletchley Park to discuss artificial intelligence (AI), seeking to come to terms with the technology they were d... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- Early in 2020, as cities around the world began locking down in response to covid, a few researchers were still able to continue to run their experiments. Even though they, like ... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- Ambergris is a waxy substance produced by sperm whales to protect their digestive tract from indigestible debris. Once expelled, it floats to the surface, washing up as flotsam o... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 3 -- Last week, the internet was abuzz with speculation that an army of autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents had begun conspiring against us. Overheard conversations between ... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 20 -- If there is one thing those who design artificial intelligence (AI) policies insist on, it is that the AI systems we build should be explainable. It seems to be a reasonable requ... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- Science and technology have advanced most reliably when carried out in the open. Isaac Newton was only able to publish Principia Mathematica because he was able to "stand on the ... Read More